For example, in the poem “Cross”, the tone of the poem is anger at the beginning. The first line "My old man's a white old man", is expressed in an angry tone. Author prefers an unrespect words ‘My old man's' instead of ‘Father' (Poem A, line1), which shows the angry tone of the poem. And the author cannot find his self-identity, so curses both rich white father and poor black mother to express the angry tone. But in line 3, the author wrote that, “I take my curses back”(line4) and “I am sorry for that evil wish” (line 7).
This kind of dark scenario gives us hints of the theme of this short story as a comparison between darkness and death. Also, the writer chose to show loneliness during the story by just having a few characters in it. The young victim of the shooting would die alone and suffering if it weren’t for the narrator. As the boy is dying the man tries to calm him down by “stroking his head like he’s his child” (para. 6).
3.05 Fascination with Fear Part A The theme I developed from Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Premature Burial” is Man must ignore the darker possibilities in life in order to survive. Examples from the text include the narrators experience he told about in the story. He awoke to the smell of dirt, nothing but darkness, the feeling of wood all around him, and silence of a sea that overwhelms. Since he cannot open the coffin he thinks he is in, he realizes that he must have fallen under an attack catalepsy in the presence of people who knew not of his condition. He screams, then to be shaken by four people, making him realize he is really in the tiny sleeping berths of a ship.
It in turn gives the poem a sense of rhythm that makes it seem like a story with a song in the background. He keeps it were you dont suspect that there will be a horrifying action taking place until it’s too late. It also shows where after, “ so she was come through wind and rain be sure I look’d at her eyes happy and proud; at last I knew Porphyria worshipped me...”(lines 30- 33) that everything completly turns and the man turns into this crazy, manipulative psychopath that kills his lover for no apparent reason. Its just like in
Morality aside, she “[walks] through her husband as if he were a ghost” (26), completely disregarding his emotions. Another example of adultery in the novel is Gatsby’s relationship with the married Daisy Buchanan. He finally reunites with his dream girl after five years of separation, however, Tom eventually learns of his wife’s betrayal, “I stared at him[Wilson] then at Tom, who had made a parallel discovery less than an hour before…” (124) He is enraged at the news and sees no justification in Daisy’s actions despite his own unfaithfulness. Tom and Daisy’s disloyalty further projects their lack of respect and
Basically talking about his lost love, self-torture and about being consumed by his past. To me I think writing was Poe’s way of coping with his wife death ,because it provided him with his own insane characters with similar pain for him to deal with, as opposed to detraction from his own pain so that he could come with these much the same with his on life. The poem setting seems like it’s midnight in a dark room where the protagonist wife has past away and he is in a terrible sate of grief and misery and all he wants is to bring her back, but he can’t, and he knows this. Then with doubt and fear he locks himself up inside this dark room, filled with darkness and hopelessness in the middle of the night and while he’s alone by himself, he hears the raven who I thinks is his subconscious also death. He wants the raven to deliver Lenore to him or show him to her, but the raven only mocks him seems like and shows’ him how no one waits for you after death, you are all by yourself.
Throughout the short story Faulkner makes reference to the depthless silhouette of Abner Snopes. For example, Sarty recalls the incident at the De Spain’s manor where his father, Snopes, intentionally ruined an expensive rug owned by the De Spain’s. According to Faulkner, “the last thing the boy remembered was the depthless, harsh silhouette of the hat and coat bending over the rug and it seemed to him that he had not even closed his eyes when the silhouette was standing over him, the
All of the good things of the once lively city had gone away while the evil starts to build up its power and the city is in ruins. The message Edgar is trying to send out is that even the most beautiful things in life may be covered in darkness and the beauty of it all is gone. As I have mentioned Edgar had lost his mother, his brother, eventually his father, and his cousin/wife to death and it left his mind in dark shadows causing grieve and depression. Edgar Allan Poe had developed a drinking problem later on in life because he couldn’t live with reality. I have lost someone close to me and I know that darkness falls and it can bring you to a very depressed state, which is where Edgar had fallen.
Guilt made him seem more like the common man and likable because of the sheer fact that he was relatable to his old self. Readers can juxtapose his crippling guilt with their own in this sense, while almost feeling sorrowful for the cold-blooded murderer. “And all our yesterdays have lighted fools / the way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle / life’s but a walking shadow” (Shakespeare V.v.22-24). Having realized the loss of his Queen, Macbeth fantasizes his own demise; his conscience wants justice for the sins he has committed, showing his guilt and remorse for what he’s done.
The subject matter contained within the poem, On the Death of Ronald Ryan is designed to evoke the reader’s own feelings on capital punishment. The body of the poem depicts the last minutes of the life of Ronald Ryan. We are given startling image of Ryan on the trapdoor, bravely waiting his end. A biographical detail is used, that he refused to be tranquilised. This makes him appear noble and brave, despite the fact that he was a murderer he is the one who emerges from this event with dignity, ‘You died most horrifyingly like a man.’ We are also made to feel guilty as he as described as ‘white faced’ beneath his hood.